Rating: Alcatel-Lucent has the black box to do it
It's no secret that mobile operators has little idea what apps their mobile data networks are actually carrying. Alcatel-Lucent, however, claims its 9900 Wireless Network Guardian (WNG) device discover this in real time.
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Rating: Mapping and presence improve
its attraction
Crazy as it may seem, 58 per cent of
respondents to a study commissioned by RIM from Forrester reported
that putting CRM apps onto mobile phones was a key part of their IT
strategy for 2009.
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Rating: Use an iPhone and Meru's network console
It's a network manager from Hell's (NMFH's) dream come true. Dictate
to your network users via that fashion icon – the Apple iPhone – without having
to return to your desk.
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Rating: location and context condensed into single icon
Following on its success with Wi-Fi handovers see
here, Agito's latest release of RoamAnywhere (3.0) with major on users'
'presence' based on both location and 'context'.
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Rating: This review first appeared April 15th 2008
Whilst
mSync from Newact holds plenty of promise, currently
[2008] it fails to deliver on most
of them. The software aims to be the best application for syncing a handset with
the web.
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Rating: Manage all your handset's data from the web
For anyone who's ever wanted to backup or manipulate the wealth of information that now resides on a mobile handset, Vufone is one answer to their prayers.
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Rating: Strange, shouldn't those errors have shown up before?
By accident I appear to have turned software tester for an app which runs on the latest version of Symbian phones. I discovered a bug which shouldn't have been there. Addressbook based, it is.
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Rating: Brings Twitter, IM and even Skype calls to the party
What a transformation the very latest version of Truphone for the Apple iPhone makes. It now supports a whole range of IM clients plus Twitter and Skype. Fantastic.
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An in-house study by Mywaves has found that consumers aren't as tolerant of a pre-roll advertisement format as long as 30 seconds.
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If Nokia recently
paid $8 billion dollars for a company, you'd have to take some notice – wouldn't
you? So I caved into perusing details of Navteq's Global LBS Challenge competition. Some of the apps look genuinely useful, though.
This particular competition is for bods based in the EMEA region so it's fairly impressive that no fewer than 115 bothered to enter. Although the top prize winner will receive €35,000 ($51,000) in cash and one three-year Navteq territory license valued at €225,000 ($330,000). So that's a bit of an incentive.
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